Part 7

_Whereas_, The increase of Juvenile Delinquency in all the large cities of our country, has claimed the attention of philanthropists; and _whereas_, the Board of Managers of the House of Refuge, Philadelphia, are desirous that errors in modes of training the young, and other causes co-operating to produce the evil referred to, may be presented in such a form as to claim the serious consideration of parents and guardians throughout the land; therefore,

_Resolved_, That the Board of Managers do offer a premium of one hundred dollars for the best essay, and fifty dollars for that next in order of merit, to be awarded by a committee of literary gentlemen: _Provided_, that such essays shall not exceed fifty octavo pages in length, and shall be contributed before the first day of July, A. D. 1853; and whether successful or not in competition, shall be at the absolute disposal of the Board of Managers.

In accordance with the above preamble and resolution, the premiums therein named are now offered, without restriction as to the residence of competitors.

The Rt. Rev. Alonzo Potter, Frederick A. Packard, Esq., and Stephen Colwell, Esq., have consented to act as the Committee, to examine and adjudge as to the merits of the Essays offered in competition.

Competitors for the above named premiums, will please address their manuscripts to "John Biddle, No. 6 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia;" and send therewith, their names and places of residence, under sealed envelopes.

As the object of the Board of Managers of the House of Refuge in offering the above-named premiums, is mainly to call the attention of parents and guardians to errors in the prevalent modes of training the young--a subject which should claim the attention of every reader--the undersigned would call the attention of editors of newspapers generally, throughout the United States, to this advertisement, and ask the favor of an insertion of it, or of the more important parts of it, in the columns of their papers.

By order of the Board of Managers of the House of Refuge.

THOS. P. COPE, President of H. of R. JOHN BIDDLE, Secretary of H. of R.

_Philadelphia, Feb. 17, 1853._

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_From the Episcopal Recorder._

This periodical gives a large amount of information on Prison Discipline, and cannot fail to interest such as grieve over the sufferings occasioned by crime, and regard the imprisoned criminal as still belonging to our common humanity, and needing the commiseration of the wise and good.

_From the Public Ledger._

We have received the October number of the Pennsylvania Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy, published under the direction of the Philadelphia Society for alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons. It is stored with interesting matter.

_From the Presbyterian._

We have been reading with great interest the Pennsylvania Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy.

AN INQUIRY

INTO THE ALLEGED TENDENCY OF THE SEPARATION OF CONVICTS, ONE FROM THE OTHER, TO PRODUCE DISEASE AND DERANGEMENT.

BY A CITIZEN OF PENNSYLVANIA. _Philadelphia_: E. C. & J. Biddle. 1849.

It is, as might possibly be anticipated from the residence of the author, an elaborate and ardent defence of the separate system of confinement. The charge of its peculiar tendency to induce disease and insanity, is altogether denied, and the testimony of the successive physicians to the Eastern State Penitentiary, during a term of nearly twenty years, goes very satisfactorily to warrant the denial.

The author is not, however, inclined to rest at this, but carries the war into the enemies' camp. The chapter entitled Medical Practice, in a Congregate Prison, is calculated to attract attention, from the positions laid down in it, and their startling illustrations, deduced from the well known case of Abner Rogers. It is not the time or the place for us to enter on this warmly controverted subject, and we have noticed the work only on account of its bearing on the subject of insanity, and as forming a part of its literature.--_Am. Journal of Insanity, published by the Superintendent of the New York Lunatic Asylum, July, 1850._

So far as the leading controversy, in regard to the rival systems of prison discipline, is concerned, it seems to us to cover the entire ground with singular ability.--_Princeton Review._

☞ A few copies of this pamphlet are still on hand, and may be had on application to the publishers, corner of Fifth and Minor streets, or to any member of the Acting Committee.

OFFICERS FOR 1852-3.

PRESIDENT--James J. Barclay. VICE-PRESIDENTS--Townsend Sharpless, Charles B. Trego. TREASURER--Edward Yarnall.

SECRETARIES AND COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE-- William Parker Foulke, Edward Townsend.

COUNSELLORS. Job R. Tyson, Garrick Mallery.

ACTING COMMITTEE.

James J. Barclay, Townsend Sharpless, Charles B. Trego, Edward Yarnall, William Parker Foulke, Edward Townsend, Job R. Tyson, Garrick Mallery, F. A. Packard, Jeremiah Hacker, William Shippen, Charles Ellis, A. T. Chur, Morris Wickersham, M. W. Baldwin, Mark Balderston, Joshua L. Baily, Thomas Latimer, Josh. T. Jeanes, John M. Wetherill, Horatio C. Wood, John Lippincott, John J. Lytle, Henry M. Zollickoffer, William S. Perot, Benjamin J. Crew, Isaac G. Turner, William U. Ditzler.

☞ Quarterly Meeting of the Society, 2nd second day (Monday) of January, April, July and October.

INSPECTORS OF THE STATE PENITENTIARY FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA.

John Bacon, Richard Vaux, Hugh Campbell, Singleton A. Mercer, Andrew Miller.

WARDEN--John S. Halloway. RESIDENT PHYSICIAN--D. W. Lassiter, M. D. MORAL INSTRUCTOR--Thomas Larcombe. CLERK--William Marriott. TEACHER--George Neff.

VISITING COMMITTEE OF THE EASTERN PENITENTIARY.

Townsend Sharpless, Edward Townsend, James J. Barclay, A. Theodore Chur, Joshua J. Jeanes, Matthias W. Baldwin, Joshua L. Baily, John Lippincott, John J. Lytle, Horatio C. Wood, Isaac G. Turner, Benjamin J. Crew.

INSPECTORS AND OFFICERS OF THE PHILADELPHIA COUNTY PRISON.

PRESIDENT.--Jesse R. Burden, M. D., TREASURER.--T. C. Bunting. M. D., SECRETARY.--E. A. Penniman,

Edward C. Dale, Samuel Palmer, Robert O'Neill, Hugh O'Donnell, Thomas E. Crowell, Godfrey Metzger, Charles T. Jones, Joseph K. Howell, Joshua S. Fletcher, William Elliott, Samuel McManemy, John T. Smith.

SUPERINTENDENT.--Anthony Freed. DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENTS.--William B. Perkins, John Mirkil. CLERK.--Wm. J. Crans. MATRON.--E. McDaniel. PHYSICIAN.--Dr. J. C. Wall. MORAL INSTRUCTOR.--Rev. Wm. Alexander.

ASSISTANT KEEPERS--C. Stagers, William Sharp, H. C. Snyder, Alexander Campbell, F. Laird, J. B. Haines, A. Morrison, Alexander Burden, J. Watt, G. Kirkpatrick, William McGrath.

VISITING COMMITTEE ON THE COUNTY PRISON.

William S. Perot, Dr. William Shippen, Jeremiah Hacker, H. M. Zollickoffer, Thomas Latimer, Paul T. Jones, Morris S. Wickersham, John M. Wetherill, Charles Ellis, B. B. Comegys, William U. Ditzler.

Transcribers' Notes.

Italics are rendered between underscores; e.g. _Princeton Review._.

Small caps are rendered in ALL CAPS.

A paragraph, which was split between the second page of the cover and the third page of the cover (inside front and inside back), was joined together on the second page.

The beginning of the third page of the cover was marked with a notation between curly brackets ({ Third page of cover. }).

The table in Article IV was split into two tables to better fit on the page.

The following table shows changes made by the transcriber. Page# refers to the ordinal number of the printed page for this issue. Page 2 is the inside front cover. Page 8 is the eighth page in this issue (which was numbered 58 for the year). Page 20 is the twentieth page in this issue (which was numbered 70), and so on. Page 60 is the outside back cover.

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